Stormpike's Deciphering
Quest #554
Level 40
Hillsbrad Foothills
no runs yet
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What to do
Take the Ensorcelled Parchment to Prospector Stormpike in Ironforge.
The quest giver's words
Prospector Stormpike is a master of decryption and deciphering. If you take the parchment you found to him, then with luck he can make sense of it. Stormpike is currently studying in the Prospector headquarters in Ironforge.
And when you see him tell him you spoke with me - I've been sending him quite a lot of business lately.
Progress
More interruptions?
Ah, this parchment is covered with a very intricate, finely woven spell. I can untangle it, of course, but it's going to take time. And time is very valuable to me...
Perhaps I will just purchase it from you?
Completion
A wise decision. I don't believe there is a scholar other than myself with the skills to translate this scroll. And if its contents prove interesting, fear not. I will send for you.
What you need
- Handed to you when you accept it
- Ensorcelled Parchment
The reward
No item reward.
- Money
- 50s
- and 9s 60c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 1,550
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at level 45 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 28–45 1,550 100% 46 1,250 80% 47 925 60% 48 625 40% 49 310 20% 50–89 160 10% 90 none 9s 60c more money The game pays the full figure up to five levels above the quest, then 20 % less for each level more, down to a tenth, and none at the level cap. A bonus of your own (a guild perk, a holiday) comes on top.
Reputation
- Ironforge +100
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- Human, Dwarf, Night Elf, Gnome
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 40, requires level 28
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- The Ensorcelled Parchment #551 · any one of these
After this
Nothing follows it.
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Loremaster Dibbs npc · Hillsbrad Foothills at 0.506, 0.571
- Hand in to
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- Prospector Stormpike npc · Ironforge at 0.746, 0.117
- pick up
These two markers are the quest giver's and the hand-in's own positions – not where anybody was standing. The recorded positions are further down, under the community data.
Relevant locations
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Hillsbrad Foothills
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Loremaster Dibbs
Starts the quest · 50.6, 57.1
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Ironforge
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Prospector Stormpike
Hand the quest in · 74.6, 11.7
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The pins are the game's own map markers; the coordinates are the game's 0–100, as
/way takes them.
What players recorded
Everything below this line is a different kind of knowledge from everything above it. Above: what the quest is, the same on every realm. Below: what actually happened when people played it, uploaded by them, with the number of runs printed against every figure. It is an observation, not a fact about the quest.
Nobody has completed this quest with telemetry on yet, so there is no timing. Everything below is drawn straight from the 0 recorded attempts the hub has.
How precise this guide is
Early guide Built from 0 runs by 0 players – low confidence. Every upload of this quest sharpens it: the hotspots tighten, the order and the timings settle, and the parts below unlock as the sample grows.
- Where to go – pick-up, objectives and hand-in needs one recorded run not yet
- Typical time and objective order – median and middle half needs 3 completed runs (now 0) not yet
- Tips – what most players do needs 5 runs (now 0) not yet
- Where players die – death hotspots on the map needs 5 characters from at least 2 different people (now 0 from 0) not yet
Timings
Based on 0 completed runs. Computed on this page; the analyser has not published this quest yet.
Same 0 runs.
Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.
0 tracked kills.
The route
An early route: drawn from the first runs and sharper with every upload. Pick-up, hand-in and the objective hotspots are where the quest is, so they are shown from the first run.
Map coordinates are the addon's own 0–1 zone coordinates (Hillsbrad Foothills), origin top-left, x to the right and y downward. Drag the zone map to pan, ctrl/⌘ + scroll or the buttons to zoom; the grid lines are tenths of the zone.
- Pick up
- Not recorded yet.
- Turn in
- Not recorded yet.
- Deaths during this quest
- None recorded – nobody died doing this.
Objectives, in the order players do them
No objective progress has been uploaded for this quest yet. Once somebody plays it with the addon on, the objectives and their hotspots appear here automatically.
Tips
No tips yet – they need a handful of runs before they say anything true.
Recorded runs
No runs recorded yet.
Community notes
Nobody has added a note to this quest yet.